Babysitting in Utah

Last weekend we drove down to Utah to babysit Blake, Tyler, and Lacey for the day!  It was great practice and experience to see what it will be like to be parents.  Hats off to all you parents, it was a very busy, tiring day!  I was amazed with how much these kids ate all day long, so sorry if this post involves lots of our meals.  After cereal for breakfast we rolled them all up like burritos.  :)  Easier to manage when they can't move. :) haha. 

 Then after the process of getting them dressed we went to the park.  Tyler and Blake picked these flowers for Natalie, their mom, which got destroyed by the sprinklers. Sorry!  Tyler was so intent at looking at them though!

 In the slide

 After the park we came home and had some muffins and yogurt.  They called them daddy muffins, because I used a normal sized muffin tin, compared to a mini muffin tin.  Played some more and had lunch!  We made ham sandwiches with grapes/blueberries.  Then it was Lacey's nap time and the boys watched a movie.  Brad and I took a nap! :) Already tired from the day... haha.  After nap time was snack time again, this included more grapes/blueberries and bread.  Then we went to the splash pad just down the street.  It was getting close to dinner and based on all the previous snacks I figured they'd want more, so I grabbed a bag of carrots for them to snack on.  If you look closely at Blake's mouth you can tell how much they enjoyed the carrots. :)

They would not stop eating carrots!!  They'd run in the water, then want more carrots. They basically finished the bag.  They also rolled down this giant hill next to the splash pad and then would race back up it. 

 We came home and made hot dogs for dinner.  We bought a pack of 8 hot dogs, thinking that would be plenty for all of us... WRONG!  These kids inhaled hot dogs!!  They each ate 1 1/2 hot dogs pretty sure, and finished off ALL the blueberries, and yogurt.  They were still asking for hot dogs after we ran out, so they ate more bread. :)  Then we got ready for bed and picked up the toys and it was time for their reward.  SKITTLES!  Brad quizzed them from the day, or their favorite color, animal, aunt/uncle, before giving them their skittle.  Their favorite skittle flavors were Strawberry and chocolate. i.e. grape. :) 

It was an exhausting fun day!!  Thanks Matt and Nat for letting us come down and babysit, we had an awesome time with your kids!